While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

For a movie that takes its name from a giant bird-eating spider, I was never consumed by the narrative the way I wanted to be, even if the film is a credit to up-and-coming independent cinema.

After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United States, researchers are keeping a watchful eye on the H5N1 virus to slow further spread. Since early 2024, the country has recorded ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

The New York Times provided us with “The Well Challenge: 5 Days to Happier, Healthier Eating.” It started off with a quiz to help us identify which foods in our grocery cart are ultraprocessed.

Eating one or more daily servings of unprocessed red meat was linked to a 16% higher risk of subjective cognitive decline than eating less than half a daily serving. Researchers found that the ...

Mike Lomax travels hundreds of miles for the chance to see rare birds Bird watchers from across England are in west Cornwall hoping to catch sight of a Booted Eagle. BBC News talks to some of them ...

After adjusting for factors such as age, sex and other risk factors for cognitive decline, researchers found that eating higher processed red meat was associated with faster brain aging in global ...

Raisins are dehydrated grapes and come in two varieties: black (from red grapes) and golden (from green grapes). They are sweet—though they don’t contain any added sugar—and chewy. Raisins are packed ...